RAMALLAH, November 2, 2025 (WAFA) – The General Authority of Civil Affairs informed both the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) of the death of prisoner Mohammad Hussein Muhammad Ghawadra, 63, from Jenin.

The Israeli occupation forces detained Ghawadra on August 6, 2024. He remained detained ever since in Ganot Prison (formerly Nafha and Ramon Prisons).

He was the father of administrative detainee Sami Ghawadra and the father of former prisoner Shadi Ghawadra, who was deported to Egypt as part of the prisoner exchange deal earlier this year.

The Commission and the PPS affirmed that Ghawadra's death comes amidst the ongoing systematic incitement led by the occupation authorities, represented by the fascist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is seeking to pass a law to execute prisoners and boasts about his crimes against them, at a time when Palestinian prisoners are subjected to one of the most severe forms of a comprehensive and ongoing war of extermination inside Israeli prisons.

The killing of Ghawadra adds to the series of complex crimes perpetrated by the occupation regime against prisoners, aimed at their slow death and psychological and physical destruction.

The two organizations noted that following the ceasefire agreement, the occupation prison administration escalated its crimes and violations.

Testimonies and statements from released prisoners are "irrefutable evidence of systematic torture and extrajudicial killings within the prisons, a fact clearly reflected in the bodies of martyrs handed over as part of the agreement."

With the killing of detainee Muhammad Ghawadra, the number of identified slain prisoners since the beginning of the war of extermination rises to 81, while the crime of enforced disappearance continues to affect dozens of detainees.

K.T